Fw 190 D-9 Hasegawa 1/32

[stona]

With the PCM "Anton" on hold I've decided to start this project.

I'll be using this kit as a basis for my subject.



I'm not 100% sure which aircraft I'll be doing but I'm leaning towards one of the victims of Bodenplatte flown by Dieter Krageloh. There's a few pictures of the aircraft (in a bit of a mess!) and a good back story. I've been meaning to make either Krageloh's or Theo Niebel's aircraft for a while as a sort of Bodenplatte project..

Importantly there's not much to do to the kit to make Krageloh's Mimetall built D-9 from it.

I will return to the PCM Anton. If I can't get the missing bits from PCM I'll raid them from the spares or another kit

Cheers

Steve

[Vaughan]

Looks like an interesting build Steve.

[Guest]

A question Steve which I keeps arising.

What is your passion with German aircraft based on ?

This may have been posed before if so I must have missed it. My passion is RAF probably as I was born into the Spitfire age where every boy charged around the play ground with arms flung wide as a Spitfire in a full speed diving twisting manouvre.

Laurie

[stona]

A question Steve which I keeps arising.What is your passion with German aircraft based on ?

Laurie

Initially I think it stems from the camouflage and markings which are far more varied and interesting than their allied counterparts. When I first got an airbrush I realised that I could represent these reasonably well. I couldn't do it with a brush, which says more about my lack of brush painting skills than anything else

I had just started modelling seriously the first time around as a lot of the early research into the Luftwaffe and its aircraft was starting to be published. Unlike today the Luftwaffe was very much a "minority sport" and those first generation researchers deserve a lot of credit for changing that. Much of what they did stands up quite well 30-40 years later.

As far as the history goes I get very frustrated with the myths and always try and understand the realities. Specifically for the Luftwaffe I think it goes back to a traditional sympathy for the under dog and an admiration for what some of these men did as they were overwhelmed by vastly superior opposition in the East and West. That does NOT translate in an admiration for the system they were fighting for, which is an entirely different thing.

I've more or less decided to do Krageloh's aircraft, and the story of his contribution (or non-contribution!) to operation Bodenplatte sums it up. Happily he did survive and went on to be a successful architect. I'll tell his story to go with the model of his aeroplane.

Cheers

Steve

[stona]

I've made a start.

The gubbins (basically the a*se end of the engine) which will be visible from underneath and the pilot. He looks like a victim of the French revolution but I do have a head for him!



Cheers

Steve

[tr1ckey66]

Hi Steve

If your previous D9 is anything to go by then this is going to be special.

Cheers P

[Vaughan]

Steve, all's looking good

Your on this one with a mission I think Roman has got competition. This your second build in under a month!

[stona]

Definitely on a mission. When I am at home I can really get stuck in!

Here's somewhere for the pilot to sit.



Absolutely minimal weathering, just a bit of dry brushing. I haven't used the decals on the side consoles, just a bit of "toothpick painting". We know from the werknummer that this aircraft was built in mid December 1944 and shot down on 1st January 1945 on what was very possibly its first operational flight.

Cheers

Steve

[BarryW]

I look forward to watching this build, Steve. I have in mind a Hassy 190D at some point - when I get through most of my current growing stash that is....

[stona]

I put the pilot in and zipped up the fuselage last night.



It's at times like this one wonders why one bothers painting the detail in the cockpit. I even cut out individual instrument decals an applied them to the panel. I'd forgotten just how little is visible in a Fw 190 cockpit, particularly with a pilot fitted!

Oh well, on to the wings

Cheers

Steve

[tr1ckey66]

Wow, you're steaming through this build!

The pilot is obscuring quite a bit of the detail and with the canopy (buttoned up?) there will be even less to see. Still you know it's there.

How many FW190s do you have now?

ATB

Paul

[stona]

How many FW190s do you have now?

ATB

Paul

Mmmmmmm a few!

If you include a Ta 152 I've got only two on display, but there's four of five up in the loft. I haven't seen the Dora I built on here for a while so it might have been scrapped.

Of course I'll have another one when I start the PCM "Anton", but I might have to nick a canopy off one of the others as I've had no response to my query.....yet.

Cheers

Steve

[stona]

Quick update at close of play today, though I notice the Aussies are still piling on the runs at the Oval!

This afternoon I have attached the wings.





Not much to fettle as the fit is very good.

Cheers

Steve

[flyjoe180]

Those pesky Aussies. Nice progress Steve, that cockpit is a tight fit for your pilot.

[stona]

Did a bit of an oil wash in the undercarriage bays. Some stuff must have come off the engine, even in a handful of flights.



Stuck the bits on the front and back which transform this into a D-9.



Just a tiny bit of superglue/talc in the wing roots. You can just about see it on the starboard side.

Cheers

Steve